Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, in collaboration with several partners, is proud to announce:
/*Networked Disruption*/ /*Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and Business*/ /Group exhibition and side programme / Curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption <http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption> *Exhibition @ **Škuc Gallery*, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana, Slovenia / March 11 – April 3, 2015 *Seminar @ **Kino Šiška*, Trg prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia /March 11 – 12, 2015 _<http://www.aksioma.org/press/networked.disruption.zip>_ /*Networked Disruption*/**is an exhibition and a series of events produced by *Aksioma *and***Drugo more *in collaboration with several partners and curated by *Tatiana Bazzichelli*. The exhibition,hosted by *Škuc Gallery*in Ljubljana and the *Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art*in Rijeka,is centred on the concept of “Networked Disruption”, as an opportunity to show new possible routes of social and political action in the line of disruption. It focuses on the mutual interferences between business and disruption, by shedding light simultaneously on heterogeneous practices of hackers, artists, networkers, whistleblowers, activists and entrepreneurs who engage deeply with network activity. The increasing commercialisation of sharing and networking contexts since the middle of 2000s is transforming the meaning of art and that of business. What were once marginal practices of networking in underground hacker and artistic contexts have in recent years become a core business for many information technology companies and social media enterprises. In Bazzichelli’s analysis, art intertwines with disruption beyond dialectical oppositions, leading to a discovery of subliminal and distributed strategies, which emerge /from within/the capitalistic systems, or act /within it/. In the exhibition and seminar, she involves actors who directly engage with hacktivism, art, civil liberties and social networking exposing contradictions of capitalistic logics and power systems. Such interventions hijack the logic of business itself, appropriating and détourning it by operating disruption. The challenge is to collectively rethink oppositional hacktivist and artistic strategies within the framework of (social) networking, information economy and increasingly invasive corporations and government agencies. The exhibition**shows a diverse constellation of networking projects that aims to actualise – and to question – the notion of “networking” itself: *Anna Adamolo, Anonymous, Billboard Liberation Front, Burning Man Festival, Cacophony Society, Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša, Julian Oliver, Laura Poitras, Les Liens Invisibles, Luther Blissett, Mail Art, Neoism, Peng! Collective, Suicide Club, Telekommunisten, and Trevor Paglen*. The /Networked Disruption/exhibition is based on Bazzichelli’s book /Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking/(DARC Press, The Digital Aesthetics Research Centre of Aarhus University, 2013). Bazzichelli’s hypothesis is that mutual interferences between art, hacktivism and the business of social networking have changed the meaning and contexts of political and technological criticism. Hackers and artists have been active agents in business innovation, while at the same time also undermining business. Artists and hackers use disruptive techniques of networking within the framework of social media, opening up a critical perspective towards business to generate unpredictable feedback and unexpected reactions; business enterprises apply disruption as a form of innovation to create new markets and network values, which are often just as unpredictable. Bazzichelli proposes the concept of the /Art of Disrupting Business/as a form of artistic practice within the business field of information technology. The artworks and collective projects are conceptually and visually interlinked in the exhibition spaces, which constitutes a network of networks. By applying the strategy of “working from within”, some sections of the show are conceptualised in collaboration with people deeply involved in the networks under scrutiny: Vittore Baroni (Mail Art), Florian Cramer (Neoism), Gabriella Coleman (Anonymous), John Law (Suicide Club and Cacophony Society), Andrea Natella (The Luther Blissett Project) and members of the Anna Adamolo network. This choice reflects the perspective that a new methodology of curating a research should open a metaphorical (and physical) space to encourage and provoke feedback loops among theory and practice, and among subjects and objects of analysis. The result is a constellation of networking practices, which aims to actualise – and to question – the notion of “direct participation” itself. *Seminar registration: *Please send your full name and e-mail address by March 10^th to: [email protected]_ *Project's webpage:* www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption <http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption> *Seminar full programme and participants**: *www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption/pdf/seminar_eng.pdf <http://www.aksioma.org/networked.disruption/pdf/seminar_eng.pdf> *Tatiana Bazzichelli*is a curator and researcher, author of the books Networked Disruption (2013), Networking (2008), and co-editor of the book Disrupting Business (2013). She is director of the Disruption Network Lab, an experimental curatorial project on art, hacktivism, and disruption, based in Berlin. She was programme curator at the transmediale festival from 2011 to 2014, initiating the year-round reSource transmedial culture project, and was a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Centre for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University of Lüneburg. *CREDITS* Curated by: Tatiana Bazzichelli Head of production: Janez Janša Artistic directors: Janez Janša (Aksioma), Vladimir Vidmar (Škuc Gallery) Producers: Marcela Okretič, Joško Pajer Executive producer: Sonja Grdina Assistant: Boris Beja Technicians: Atila Boštjančič, Valter Udovičić Public relations: Hana Ostan Ožbolt Documentation: Miha Fras, Adriana Aleksić, Jernej Čuček Gerbec *Production: *Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana; Drugo more, Rijeka, 2015 *Coproduction:*Abandon Normal Devices,**Škuc Gallery, Kino Šiška,**Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka *Partners: *Moderna galerija Ljubljana, d-i-n-a / The Influencers, Link Art Center /Networked Disruption/is realized in the framework of *Masters & Servers*, a joint project by Aksioma (SI), Drugo more (HR), AND (UK), Link Art Center (IT) and d-i-n-a / The Influencers (ES). www.mastersandservers.org <http://www.mastersandservers.org> *Supported by:*the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Municipality of Ljubljana, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Slovenia. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. *Contact:* www.aksioma.org/contacts <http://www.aksioma.org/contacts>
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